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Truely, I'm really curious who here subscribes to Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, Medium etc

Is this really commonplace?

I subscribe to two of the sites you listed because it doesn't cost that much and it is more convenient to pay for it than deal with fidgeting with incognito mode, erasing cookies, using a 3rd party site to read, etc...

Medium, The New York Times, and Washington Post all have easily circumventable paywalls, though I can't vouch for the other one you listed.

Is that really the point?

They've started detecting incognito mode and won't show content, all you have to do is just use a completely different browser program like Safari if you normally use Chrome, but its different and changes for every site

You can also use a different Chrome profile.

FYI, Chrome is making changes to make it harder to detect incognito mode. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/22/chrome-76-blocks...

This website asked me to disable my ad blocker, then showed me an ad for their subscription. I guess they follow the footsteps of porn sites again ...

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